{"id":1334,"date":"2026-07-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:00:00","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/04\/happy-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019d like to share the story about the David Muir exclusive, climbing up to the top of the Statue of Liberty. But when I go to ABC News website and literally type in \u201cDavid Muir Statue of Liberty,\u201d not a goddamn thing pops up about David Muir climbing the Statue of Liberty. So fuck ABC News. I\u2019ll post a competing news site\u2019s story instead. See here<\/a>. Maybe it\u2019s there someplace and ABC just has a horrible search engine built into their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyways, I happened to catch Muir on Kelly & Mark where they were interviewing him about his climb. Muir stated how he was shocked to learn that the statue sways. Really? Shocked? I mean, I\u2019m not in the news business and I\u2019m only a few years older than him, so surely he remembers when the whole swaying thing was an issue back in 1982-1986<\/a> when they had to shut it down for a while to restore it by July 4, 1986. Reagan. Iacocca. Statue of Liberty. Truly, an all-American story for Independence Day as we celebrate America 250!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spirit of patriotism, here is a picture of a set of uncirculated coins from 1979 that I have.<\/p>\n\n\n

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No camping this year for us during the long weekend. Almost done fixing the bracket holding up the fresh water tank on the RV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Independence Day! David Muir didn\u2019t know that the Statue of Liberty swayed? Come on! More on my Corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Happy Independence Day!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[316],"tags":[695,694,696],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","tag-david-muir","tag-independence-day","tag-statue-of-liberty"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}